This release is the largest update to Strawberry Perl ever. It was built with the 4th generation WiX-based builder Perl-Dist-WiX. Because of that, we now generate an .msi installer, instead of an .exe one. This allows Strawberry Perl to be installable across entire organizations using Active Directory.

The icons in the start menu have been improved and are now correct, and a "Live Support" link has been added to the start menu that connects to the #win32 IRC channel.

The uninstallation process also removes the environment values it installs, and removes CPAN modules that were installed after Strawberry Perl has been installed.

The modules that are built in to Strawberry Perl have been upgraded, to include versions that support CPAN auto-upgrade and configure_requires.

DBD::mysql and local::lib are also included within the default install, and CPANPLUS is now pre-configured correctly.